Allen Jackson - Christ and Antichrist (Part 2)

January 15, 2025 | S25:E15

Pastor Allen Jackson's mission is to help people become fully devoted followers of Jesus Christ.

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  • Allen jackson: you learn to believe, you grow up in belief.
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  • You say, "we haven't been coached on this.
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  • We've been told to be saved and maybe be baptized,
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  • Then be a student.
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  • Study, study, study."
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  • So we study and then we talk about whether or not we believe
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  • Those things still happen.
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  • Well, why are you studying if they don't still happen?
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  • That's called history, and even good students of history imagine
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  • That history repeats itself and can inform your future.
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  • We should at least be--have the courage of biblical historians
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  • And believe that god can repeat himself.
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  • ♪♪♪
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  • Allen: it's an honor to be with you again.
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  • We're going to complete our study on one of my favorite
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  • Topics, "my friend jesus."
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  • You know, at the end of the day, our faith is not based
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  • On systematic theologies or translations of the bible
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  • Or styles of worship.
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  • It's based on a relationship with a person,
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  • And his name is jesus.
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  • But the key to the entire narrative is learning to trust
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  • Him, to put your faith in him.
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  • When you're born again, it's not just that
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  • Your sins are forgiven.
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  • There's a spiritual resurrection.
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  • You are made alive in christ.
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  • When jesus comes back to the earth, there's going to be
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  • A physical resurrection; not one or two people,
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  • But over the whole earth.
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  • That's my friend.
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  • You see, he's not like us.
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  • He can--his word will cause a global resurrection.
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  • I don't know what problem you have today, but i promise you
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  • Our friend is capable of helping you overcome
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  • Whatever challenge you have.
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  • Grab your bible and a notepad, but most of all, open
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  • Your heart to our friend jesus.
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  • Allen: jesus is ministering in his--in a small setting, and
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  • They bring a young man who has some physical challenges.
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  • And he looks at the young man and said,
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  • "'friends, your sins are forgiven.'
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  • And the pharisees and the teachers of the law began
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  • Thinking to themselves, 'who is this fellow
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  • Who speaks blasphemy?
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  • Who can forgive sins but god alone?'"
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  • "just who does he think he is?
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  • Who do you think you are to say to somebody they could
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  • Have peace with god?"
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  • I'm nobody special, but have i told you about my friend?
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  • "jesus knew what they were thinking, and he asked,
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  • 'why are you thinking these things in your hearts?
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  • Which is easier: to say, 'your sins are forgiven,'
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  • Or to say, 'get up and walk?'"
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  • Now, jesus's point is lost on them, but it
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  • Shouldn't be lost on us.
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  • He said it's a greater lift to say your sins are forgiven.
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  • He said, "the spiritual life that i spoke to him is
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  • A far greater challenge.
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  • That will ultimately cost me my physical life and
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  • A tremendous amount of suffering."
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  • Do you think it's harder to say "your sins are forgiven" than
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  • It is to say "get up and walk"?
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  • 'cause they have no imagination you can say "get up and walk."
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  • And jesus says, "you know, that's not really a heavy lift.
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  • Just so you know i can forgive the sins, get up and walk."
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  • And the young man got up and walked.
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  • The people were amazed. his adversaries were angry.
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  • Folks, the power of our friend can change your spiritual
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  • Destiny and your physical journey through time.
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  • You want to get to know him, particularly in the midst of a
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  • Turbulent season of great realignment.
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  • Now, the challenge is to learn to believe in him, to trust your
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  • Friend; and that trust is built.
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  • You don't give trust.
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  • If you give trust, you're foolish.
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  • Trust is built incrementally, bit by bit.
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  • So we talk about little faith, great faith,
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  • No faith, weak faith.
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  • We grow.
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  • In numbers chapter 14, it's not just a new testament principle,
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  • "the lord said to moses, 'how long will these
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  • People treat me with contempt?
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  • How long will they refuse to believe in me?'"
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  • Miracles didn't cause them to believe.
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  • They walked through the red sea.
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  • They saw the plagues on the egyptians.
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  • They ate manna--they were picking manna out of their
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  • Teeth, going, "i don't believe in it."
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  • They're following a pillar of fire and a pillar of cloud
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  • Going, "i don't think he'll take care of me.
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  • I just don't think he'll take care of me."
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  • They got red sea mud on the sandals that they're wearing,
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  • Saying, "do you think we can trust him?"
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  • We're no better.
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  • He was asking them to do new things, to walk in new ways.
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  • We don't like that.
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  • We don't want to change; we want god to bless us in the way that
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  • We want to walk, or i do.
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  • I struggle with that.
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  • "how long will they refuse to believe in me?"
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  • It's a theme in john's gospel.
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  • In john chapter 6, "jesus declared,
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  • 'i'm the bread of life.
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  • He who comes to me will never go hungry, and he who
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  • Believes in me will never be thirsty.'"
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  • "if you will believe in me, you'll never be thirsty."
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  • And he said, "but i've told you, you've seen me
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  • And you still won't believe."
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  • There's a struggle and jesus is identifying it.
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  • This tension, it exists in all of us.
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  • We'll sit here for a minute go, "oh, i believe,
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  • Lord, i believe."
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  • And then we'll get up tomorrow and go, "i don't know.
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  • Maybe i was emotional."
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  • John 7, jesus stood in a loud voice and he said,
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  • "if anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink.
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  • Whoever believes in me, streams of living water
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  • Will flow from within him."
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  • What i love about it is it's personal.
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  • You don't need the pastor, the priest, the bishop.
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  • If you will believe, streams of living water will come from you.
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  • What you believe about jesus is ultimately the
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  • Game changer, but belief is not a theory.
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  • It has to be expressed.
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  • Believe, believing, faith, faithful, unfaithful; it's not
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  • As clear in english, but in the greek, the language of the
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  • New testament, they're all-- very clearly
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  • They come from the same root.
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  • They're all interchangeable.
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  • To be a person who believes is a faithful person.
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  • What's it mean to be a person of great faith?
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  • It means to be a person who's consistently faithful.
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  • John chapter 11, jesus said to her--this is martha.
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  • Her brother's dead. she's upset.
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  • "if you'd have just been here, lord; if you
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  • Would have been here-- i know you.
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  • If you had been here--but you weren't here and now the window
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  • Of opportunity is closed."
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  • You have any windows of opportunity that are closed?
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  • Jesus said, "i'm the resurrection and the life.
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  • He who believes in me will live, even though he dies.
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  • Whoever lives and believes in me will never die.
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  • Do you believe this?"
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  • "yeah, yeah. whatever."
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  • It's kind of what she meant.
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  • She couldn't process what he was saying.
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  • I'm convinced that--so much of the time i struggle to process
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  • What god is inviting me to understand.
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  • "lord, i believe that you are the messiah, the son of god,
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  • Who's come into the world."
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  • "good enough. let's go see lazarus," woohoo.
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  • We talked about fundamentals a minute ago.
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  • Folks, you don't have to understand why or how.
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  • I don't know how my cell phone works.
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  • I just want it to work.
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  • I can't rebuild the car-- the engine in my car, but if
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  • It'll come on when i turn the key, i'm golden.
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  • I don't even know how fire works.
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  • Forget cars and cell phones; fire is a mystery to me but i
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  • Sure enjoy it, benefit from it in a lot of ways.
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  • Get to know your friend. believe in him.
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  • John 12, "at the same time many among the leaders believed
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  • In jesus, but because of the pharisees they
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  • Wouldn't confess their faith.
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  • They were afraid they'd be put out of the synagogue.
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  • They loved the praise of men more than the praise of god."
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  • Things haven't changed that much.
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  • "then jesus cried out, 'when a man believes in me, he doesn't
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  • Believe in me only, but in the one who sent to me.
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  • When he looks at me, he sees the one who sent me.
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  • I have come into the world as a light, so that the one who
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  • Believes in me should stay in darkness.'"
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  • Folks, the essence of our faith is believing in jesus.
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  • Make him your friend.
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  • Develop that friendship.
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  • Learn to trust him.
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  • The more you walk with him, the more you invite him into
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  • Circumstances, the more you listen to his voice, the more
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  • You pay attention to his counsel; those are all ways that
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  • That friendship is strengthened.
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  • Don't leave him as a casual acquaintance.
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  • Don't leave him as somebody you know in a worship service.
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  • If you don't invite him into your personal life, you won't
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  • Believe he can make a difference in your personal life.
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  • You want to be in charge of it.
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  • If you don't invite him into your resource management, you
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  • Can't trust him for stability in a very unstable time because
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  • You haven't made him your friend in that arena.
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  • Practice, cultivate, learn to believe in him.
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  • We learn to believe.
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  • Look at matthew 8.
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  • The disciples went and woke jesus.
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  • They're in a boat on the sea of galilee.
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  • Did you know jesus was woke?
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  • [congregation laughing]
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  • Allen: it's biblical. it's right there.
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  • Disciples were woke and they went and woke jesus.
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  • It's bad grammar and it's bad theology, but it's funny.
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  • The disciples went and woke jesus, said,
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  • "lord, we're going to drown."
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  • Heaven forbid he not be awake when he was drowning.
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  • I think this story has far less to do with jesus and far
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  • More to do with the disciples.
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  • Look at jesus's answer to them.
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  • He said, "you of little faith, why are you so afraid?"
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  • I'll tell you my takeaway.
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  • When fear is real in me and tangible in me,
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  • My faith is small.
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  • And to the degree you're afraid, you're afraid of the future,
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  • You're afraid of uncertainty, you're afraid of whatever,
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  • It's a place where we can learn to believe more fully.
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  • We could trust more fully because belief and faith, again,
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  • They all come very clearly from the same root.
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  • They're the same--they're momentum in the same direction.
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  • When i'm afraid, my faith is small.
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  • Jesus said, "i'm with you in the boat.
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  • Do you really think--" right?
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  • "you really think we're all gonna drown out here?
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  • What are you--"
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  • "well, we were afraid." "yeah, i see that."
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  • I mean, they're fishermen. he's a carpenter.
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  • You wake up a carpenter to help the fishermen in
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  • The middle of a storm?
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  • Fear is not rational. fear is not logical.
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  • Fear is not about common sense.
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  • Fear overrides all those circuits.
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  • It makes you respond in goofy ways.
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  • We need some faith, folks.
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  • We got to get to know our friend better.
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  • We got to get to know our friend better.
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  • You learn to believe. you grow up in belief.
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  • You say, "we haven't been coached on this.
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  • We've been told to be saved and maybe be baptized,
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  • Then be a student.
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  • Study, study, study."
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  • So we study and then we talk about whether or not we believe
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  • Those things still happen.
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  • Well, why are you studying if they don't still happen?
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  • That's called history, and even good students of history imagine
  • 00:10:30.011 --> 00:10:33.715
  • That history repeats itself and can inform your future.
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  • We should at least be--have the courage of biblical historians
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  • And believe that god can repeat himself.
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  • There's another spirit at work when you open your bible and say
  • 00:10:43.324 --> 00:10:45.794
  • This isn't relevant for you, and it's not the holy spirit.
  • 00:10:45.794 --> 00:10:51.399
  • Remember, true and false, it's important.
  • 00:10:51.399 --> 00:10:54.169
  • Matthew 14, peter got down out of the boat.
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  • Jesus is walking on the lake.
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  • They'd never seen that before.
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  • Peter got out of the boat. god bless him.
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  • He walked on the water and he came towards jesus.
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  • I've been on that lake hundreds of times.
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  • I keep trying.
  • 00:11:05.413 --> 00:11:08.817
  • I've been wet a lot.
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  • "but when peter saw the wind and the--he was afraid and he began
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  • To sink, and jesus-- he said, 'lord, save me.'
  • 00:11:13.354 --> 00:11:17.258
  • And immediately jesus reached out his hand and said,
  • 00:11:17.258 --> 00:11:19.194
  • 'you of little faith, why did you doubt?'"
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  • So there's another opponent adversary of belief in your
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  • Life, and that's doubt.
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  • Again, not quite as clear in the english language.
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  • More clear in the language of the new testament.
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  • But unbelief and belief right there together.
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  • You have to choose to believe.
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  • Unbelief will come to you more frequently.
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  • There are more voices that reinforce it.
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  • "you really believe that? what makes you believe that?
  • 00:11:39.547 --> 00:11:41.583
  • Why do you think that?
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  • Don't know if i believe that."
  • 00:11:42.951 --> 00:11:44.285
  • You see, the things that you really know, you don't care if
  • 00:11:44.285 --> 00:11:45.887
  • Anybody else believes them or not.
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  • "i know where i can go and catch these fish."
  • 00:11:47.956 --> 00:11:51.092
  • "well, i don't believe it."
  • 00:11:51.092 --> 00:11:52.427
  • "stay home."
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  • "i know the outcome if i'll do this procedure in this way."
  • 00:11:55.396 --> 00:11:59.067
  • "i don't know if i believe it or not."
  • 00:11:59.067 --> 00:12:00.401
  • "i'm not really asking you to believe it,
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  • I'm telling you i know."
  • 00:12:01.736 --> 00:12:03.838
  • How well do you know your friend?
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  • Are you growing in belief?
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  • If you had to plot that on a chart, is your
  • 00:12:08.009 --> 00:12:09.878
  • Belief in the lord growing?
  • 00:12:09.878 --> 00:12:11.212
  • Is it static? is it diminishing?
  • 00:12:11.212 --> 00:12:12.647
  • What are you doing with that?
  • 00:12:12.647 --> 00:12:13.982
  • How are you feeding it? how are you exercising it?
  • 00:12:13.982 --> 00:12:16.251
  • 'cause you have to exercise it.
  • 00:12:16.251 --> 00:12:19.220
  • How much education about your friend do you need
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  • Before you'll start to treat him like a friend?
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  • Female announcer: if you look, you'll find good
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  • News everywhere.
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  • Female: our baby was born healthy and strong.
  • 00:12:35.503 --> 00:12:39.374
  • Female: we have the groceries we need.
  • 00:12:39.374 --> 00:12:41.943
  • Male: another year cancer-free.
  • 00:12:41.943 --> 00:12:45.313
  • Female: we bought our first house this year.
  • 00:12:45.313 --> 00:12:49.250
  • Female: the raise came through when i needed it most.
  • 00:12:49.250 --> 00:12:52.887
  • Male: i have a working car.
  • 00:12:52.887 --> 00:12:56.491
  • Female: my husband came home safe.
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  • Female announcer: philippians 4 tells us to, "think about
  • 00:13:00.361 --> 00:13:02.197
  • Whatever is true, noble, right, pure, lovely, admirable,
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  • Excellent and praiseworthy."
  • 00:13:07.802 --> 00:13:10.071
  • All of these things honor god and when we take time to notice
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  • Them, we welcome god's presence and experience his peace.
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  • Allen: you know, the two most critical junctures of any
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  • Enterprise are how we begin and how we conclude.
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  • So, the beginning of a new year is a tremendous opportunity.
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  • We've prepared a tool we want to share with you.
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  • It's a good news journal.
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  • We wanna help you set a habit this year to do something with a
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  • Bit more intention than perhaps has been our pattern in
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  • The past.
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  • We wanna start our year with an attitude of appreciation and
  • 00:13:40.935 --> 00:13:43.972
  • Gratitude for the blessings of god in our lives.
  • 00:13:43.972 --> 00:13:47.208
  • So, we've designed this journal so that you can use it as a part
  • 00:13:47.208 --> 00:13:50.211
  • Of your devotional.
  • 00:13:50.211 --> 00:13:51.546
  • It's something you could include the children, the grandchildren.
  • 00:13:51.546 --> 00:13:53.781
  • You could take it to work and create a good news journal for
  • 00:13:53.781 --> 00:13:56.217
  • The people you work with.
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  • Wherever that may be, let's start our year out purposefully,
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  • Intentionally saying, "thank you," to the lord for his
  • 00:14:01.589 --> 00:14:04.592
  • Goodness to us.
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  • I know there's challenges and we have places where we need god's
  • 00:14:06.060 --> 00:14:08.796
  • Help, but we're gonna begin with gratitude and walk into the
  • 00:14:08.796 --> 00:14:12.700
  • Blessings of god in this year.
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  • I think you'll enjoy the journal.
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  • God bless.
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  • Female announcer: when you keep a good news list, you'll notice
  • 00:14:18.139 --> 00:14:20.241
  • How god is constantly at work all around you.
  • 00:14:20.241 --> 00:14:23.511
  • Our new 52-week, good news notebook gives you a place to
  • 00:14:23.511 --> 00:14:27.448
  • Record your good news, prayers you saw god answer, and your
  • 00:14:27.448 --> 00:14:31.052
  • Current prayer requests.
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  • As you look back on your lists over the weeks and months to
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  • Come, you'll find a personal record of god's faithfulness
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  • To you.
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  • Allen: we are trusting god for a year like no other for his
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  • Breakthroughs this year.
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  • I believe the good news journal can be a part of our journey in
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  • Each of our lives.
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  • Allen: then in matthew 16, matthew is a primer in learning
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  • To believe, "when they went across the lake,
  • 00:15:34.449 --> 00:15:36.651
  • The disciples forgot to take bread."
  • 00:15:36.651 --> 00:15:39.754
  • Panic, 'cause jesus had demonstrated shortages
  • 00:15:39.754 --> 00:15:42.757
  • Of food were a problem.
  • 00:15:42.757 --> 00:15:45.360
  • "'be careful,' jesus said to them.
  • 00:15:45.360 --> 00:15:47.061
  • 'be on your guard against the yeast of the
  • 00:15:47.061 --> 00:15:48.796
  • Pharisees and the sadducees.'
  • 00:15:48.796 --> 00:15:50.131
  • They discussed this amongst themselves and said,
  • 00:15:50.131 --> 00:15:52.433
  • 'it's because we didn't bring any bread.'"
  • 00:15:52.433 --> 00:15:56.637
  • I'm telling you, jesus made disciples
  • 00:15:56.637 --> 00:15:58.373
  • Out of the three stooges.
  • 00:15:58.373 --> 00:16:01.809
  • He just had 12, and one of them was no count at all.
  • 00:16:01.809 --> 00:16:05.847
  • "beware of the yeast of the pharisees--be careful of the
  • 00:16:05.847 --> 00:16:07.982
  • Character of the sadducees and the pharisees because they will
  • 00:16:07.982 --> 00:16:10.885
  • Infect you, and a little exposure to them will diminish
  • 00:16:10.885 --> 00:16:14.155
  • Your ability to believe," is what jesus said.
  • 00:16:14.155 --> 00:16:18.593
  • Who do you respect?
  • 00:16:18.593 --> 00:16:20.561
  • Whom do you listen to?
  • 00:16:20.561 --> 00:16:23.097
  • What are the voices of authority that you will accept regarding
  • 00:16:23.097 --> 00:16:25.533
  • Your future, and your contentment, and your happiness?
  • 00:16:25.533 --> 00:16:29.704
  • Are they godly?
  • 00:16:29.704 --> 00:16:32.940
  • I don't mean godly in veneer, godly in façade.
  • 00:16:32.940 --> 00:16:36.010
  • I mean, it's--the evidence of their life, the fruit of their
  • 00:16:36.010 --> 00:16:38.513
  • Life, does it suggest a passion for a friendship with jesus?
  • 00:16:38.513 --> 00:16:44.118
  • If not, jesus's warning is legitimate for all of us.
  • 00:16:44.118 --> 00:16:46.687
  • "beware of the yeast of the pharisees and the sadducees."
  • 00:16:46.687 --> 00:16:49.490
  • They had great education and lots of religious behaviors,
  • 00:16:49.490 --> 00:16:51.793
  • But their trajectory of faith in their life
  • 00:16:51.793 --> 00:16:54.128
  • Was not moving towards jesus.
  • 00:16:54.128 --> 00:16:55.496
  • They were his antagonists.
  • 00:16:55.496 --> 00:16:56.864
  • It's true and false again.
  • 00:16:56.864 --> 00:17:00.201
  • You see, belief will lead you towards the
  • 00:17:00.201 --> 00:17:02.503
  • Identification of the true.
  • 00:17:02.503 --> 00:17:06.507
  • As much as you're willing to follow the science,
  • 00:17:06.507 --> 00:17:08.309
  • Follow faith.
  • 00:17:08.309 --> 00:17:10.845
  • Follow those who believe.
  • 00:17:10.845 --> 00:17:15.516
  • Jesus looked at them, said, "you of little faith,
  • 00:17:15.516 --> 00:17:20.354
  • Why are you talking about no bread?"
  • 00:17:20.354 --> 00:17:22.657
  • Then he goes on to say, you know, "we had five loaves.
  • 00:17:22.657 --> 00:17:24.592
  • How many did we feed?"
  • 00:17:24.592 --> 00:17:25.927
  • "five thousand."
  • 00:17:25.927 --> 00:17:28.763
  • "and then you had seven loaves. how many did you feed?"
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  • "well, i guess 3,000."
  • 00:17:30.865 --> 00:17:34.001
  • "and there's a dozen of us and you got a couple of loaves.
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  • We're good for what, 7, 8 years?"
  • 00:17:36.170 --> 00:17:41.642
  • You see, their lack of faith came out of a
  • 00:17:41.642 --> 00:17:47.048
  • Lack of spiritual awareness.
  • 00:17:47.048 --> 00:17:50.518
  • We've got to cultivate an awareness for spiritual things,
  • 00:17:50.518 --> 00:17:52.453
  • Your willingness to believe in them.
  • 00:17:52.453 --> 00:17:54.655
  • How many times have i talked to people about things that opened
  • 00:17:54.655 --> 00:17:56.724
  • Their lives to destructive spiritual things and go,
  • 00:17:56.724 --> 00:17:59.494
  • "i don't believe in that," as if that protects you.
  • 00:17:59.494 --> 00:18:03.231
  • We just walked through a season where we all changed our lives
  • 00:18:03.231 --> 00:18:05.967
  • Almost in total around a virus that we knew very little about.
  • 00:18:05.967 --> 00:18:09.737
  • We didn't know how it was transmitted.
  • 00:18:09.737 --> 00:18:11.405
  • We didn't know what the symptomology would be.
  • 00:18:11.405 --> 00:18:13.541
  • We didn't know what the treatment was and we changed
  • 00:18:13.541 --> 00:18:15.209
  • Everything about our lives because somebody we didn't know
  • 00:18:15.209 --> 00:18:17.445
  • Told us it was a threat.
  • 00:18:17.445 --> 00:18:20.148
  • I'm not saying we were wrong.
  • 00:18:20.148 --> 00:18:21.949
  • I'm saying if you'll do that about something physical,
  • 00:18:21.949 --> 00:18:24.485
  • Why are we so stubborn about spiritual things?
  • 00:18:24.485 --> 00:18:28.256
  • Why would you take that chance?
  • 00:18:28.256 --> 00:18:29.657
  • Why would you play with the occult?
  • 00:18:29.657 --> 00:18:32.193
  • Why would you dabble with spiritual forces?
  • 00:18:32.193 --> 00:18:34.295
  • Why would you refuse to forgive?
  • 00:18:34.295 --> 00:18:35.997
  • Why would you harbor anger?
  • 00:18:35.997 --> 00:18:37.398
  • Why would you choose immorality?
  • 00:18:37.398 --> 00:18:40.001
  • Why would we not repent?
  • 00:18:40.001 --> 00:18:41.402
  • Why do we ignore the spiritual counsel?
  • 00:18:41.402 --> 00:18:45.373
  • 'cause we have small faith because our friendship with
  • 00:18:45.373 --> 00:18:48.109
  • Jesus is so distant, so formal, so stilted.
  • 00:18:48.109 --> 00:18:51.846
  • We don't trust him.
  • 00:18:51.846 --> 00:18:53.548
  • We're a church, you know, where people hang out.
  • 00:18:53.548 --> 00:18:54.949
  • We can recognize a church building.
  • 00:18:54.949 --> 00:18:56.384
  • We know what a bible looks like.
  • 00:18:56.384 --> 00:18:58.920
  • We can grow in belief.
  • 00:18:58.920 --> 00:19:00.354
  • We can grow in that. the friendship will grow.
  • 00:19:00.354 --> 00:19:02.456
  • Your confidence in him will grow.
  • 00:19:02.456 --> 00:19:03.791
  • Your trust in him will grow.
  • 00:19:03.791 --> 00:19:07.495
  • Your instincts around him-- you'll know his character.
  • 00:19:07.495 --> 00:19:09.630
  • You'll understand, "that's the lord.
  • 00:19:09.630 --> 00:19:10.965
  • That feels like the lord to me.
  • 00:19:10.965 --> 00:19:12.867
  • That sounds like the lord."
  • 00:19:12.867 --> 00:19:14.368
  • It'll be a warning sign when somebody will be using
  • 00:19:14.368 --> 00:19:16.304
  • Religious language in a religious building in a
  • 00:19:16.304 --> 00:19:18.139
  • Religious setting, you know.
  • 00:19:18.139 --> 00:19:19.707
  • That does not feel like the character of my friend.
  • 00:19:19.707 --> 00:19:21.876
  • There are some things you could tell me about my good friends
  • 00:19:21.876 --> 00:19:23.878
  • And i can tell you whether it was true or not based on the
  • 00:19:23.878 --> 00:19:25.947
  • Character i know in them.
  • 00:19:25.947 --> 00:19:28.783
  • I want to know jesus that way.
  • 00:19:28.783 --> 00:19:31.419
  • I want to know jesus that way.
  • 00:19:34.956 --> 00:19:36.357
  • I want you to know jesus that way.
  • 00:19:36.357 --> 00:19:39.160
  • My time.
  • 00:19:39.160 --> 00:19:46.100
  • Well, the next step of this, whenever we do it, is to help us
  • 00:19:47.568 --> 00:19:53.274
  • Recognize the true and the false.
  • 00:19:53.274 --> 00:19:57.745
  • Because if you know what your friend has brought to
  • 00:19:57.745 --> 00:20:00.781
  • Your life, you'll recognize something when it can't bring
  • 00:20:00.781 --> 00:20:03.417
  • That same set of things.
  • 00:20:03.417 --> 00:20:06.654
  • And i'll drop this one idea.
  • 00:20:06.654 --> 00:20:08.723
  • The spirit of antichrist is prevalent in our world today.
  • 00:20:08.723 --> 00:20:13.327
  • Antichrist carries with it two meanings.
  • 00:20:13.327 --> 00:20:15.529
  • One is in place of and the other is against; and i think you see
  • 00:20:15.529 --> 00:20:22.169
  • Expressions of both of those ideas, things that prefer to be
  • 00:20:22.169 --> 00:20:24.672
  • Worshiped, things that need to--pretend to be acknowledged
  • 00:20:24.672 --> 00:20:28.075
  • As the solution to everything, and then expressions that oppose
  • 00:20:28.075 --> 00:20:33.581
  • Any assertion that jesus truly is the solution.
  • 00:20:33.581 --> 00:20:39.587
  • That spirit is so prevalent in the world.
  • 00:20:39.587 --> 00:20:41.656
  • The reason that should have your attention is at some point ahead
  • 00:20:41.656 --> 00:20:45.359
  • Of us there will be an individual step on to the stage
  • 00:20:45.359 --> 00:20:47.828
  • Of human history that will-- the nations of the world will
  • 00:20:47.828 --> 00:20:50.965
  • Invite into a role of leadership: the antichrist.
  • 00:20:50.965 --> 00:20:55.236
  • What will make that possible is the prevalence of
  • 00:20:55.236 --> 00:20:58.572
  • The spirit of antichrist.
  • 00:20:58.572 --> 00:21:01.709
  • So what i would ask you is just from your point of evaluation if
  • 00:21:01.709 --> 00:21:06.314
  • You had to chart it, if you had to plot it on a graph, would you
  • 00:21:06.314 --> 00:21:09.317
  • Say the expressions against jesus as lord or the expressions
  • 00:21:09.317 --> 00:21:15.890
  • Of saying this is more important than jesus is lord, both
  • 00:21:15.890 --> 00:21:20.328
  • Expressions of the spirit of antichrist, are they increasing
  • 00:21:20.328 --> 00:21:23.431
  • In our world or decreasing?
  • 00:21:23.431 --> 00:21:26.267
  • And you don't have to answer that, you need to reflect
  • 00:21:26.267 --> 00:21:28.369
  • On it 'cause it's--i'll give you my opinion.
  • 00:21:28.369 --> 00:21:30.938
  • I think they are increasing exponentially.
  • 00:21:30.938 --> 00:21:34.575
  • There's a turning away in a culture that has been
  • 00:21:34.575 --> 00:21:37.111
  • Founded upon a judeo-christian worldview.
  • 00:21:37.111 --> 00:21:40.481
  • Our legal system, our finest educational system--
  • 00:21:40.481 --> 00:21:43.351
  • We used to train our children in schools with
  • 00:21:43.351 --> 00:21:48.756
  • Government funding from the bible.
  • 00:21:48.756 --> 00:21:52.360
  • Not teaching them to be methodist or presbyterian
  • 00:21:52.360 --> 00:21:54.428
  • Or roman catholic or southern baptist, but giving them
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  • A biblical worldview.
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  • It was commonplace in the medical community, the legal
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  • Community, the academic community for the christian
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  • Faith to be welcomed.
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  • Now not only is that not true, there are powerful voices trying
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  • To say it's never been true to rewrite the history so that our
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  • Children can't even be told it's their heritage.
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  • Do you know what would happen if you tried to destroy the history
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  • Of the native american culture?
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  • It shouldn't be, i'm not saying it should,
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  • But there would be an outcry.
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  • But they're destroying the history of the judeo-christian
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  • Impact on this culture and we haven't cared enough about our
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  • Friend to say, "whoa, wait a minute."
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  • So what i want you to think about is what's the trend line
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  • On that and it'll help you understand the degree to which
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  • We're coming closer to that individual being welcomed.
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  • What we're watching is not logical.
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  • We're having a debate on how to secure our futures these days.
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  • It's appropriate.
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  • Violence is escalating dramatically, but one of the
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  • Ideas is you should--18 years old is not old enough
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  • To be able to buy a weapon.
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  • I'm not entering into that, i'm not--
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  • I don't have the information to argue that, but
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  • I'm telling you it's logically inconsistent to say at 18 you
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  • Couldn't buy a gun, but at 5 years old, we want to talk to
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  • You about changing your gender.
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  • That makes no sense to me.
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  • [applause]
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  • Allen: and we have that conversation because we're
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  • Not alive spiritually.
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  • We have no spiritual awareness whatsoever.
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  • So talk about whatever, just whatever makes you happy or
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  • Whatever makes you chic or whatever somebody said.
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  • Folks, we need god's people to understand who our friend is.
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  • He will change the world.
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  • Our problem is not politicians or political parties
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  • Or ideologies.
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  • The problem we face is we're a long way away from our friend.
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  • I'll close with this.
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  • It's not in your notes, but trust me, it's in the book.
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  • Revelation 5, john said, "i looked and i heard the
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  • Voice of many angels, numbering thousands upon thousands,
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  • And ten thousand times ten thousand."
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  • I really--i mean, it's a legitimate
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  • Number that you can calculate.
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  • It's not one you can understand.
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  • A thousand times a thousand is a million.
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  • So is it safe to say there was a whole lot of angels,
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  • Just--almost further than you could see?
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  • An innumerable company of angels.
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  • "they encircled the throne and the living creatures, and in a
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  • Loud voice they sang, 'worthy is the lamb who was slain.'"
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  • That's our friend.
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  • An innumerable company of angels saying, "our friend is worthy.
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  • Don't be embarrassed of him."
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  • "to receive power and wealth and wisdom and strength and
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  • Honor and glory and praise.
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  • Then i heard every creature in heaven on earth and under the
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  • Earth and on the sea and all that is in them singing,
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  • 'to him who sits on the throne and to the lamb be praise and
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  • Honor and glory and power forever and ever.'"
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  • That's our friend.
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  • When he comes in his glory and it's revealed,
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  • You'll be amazed at him.
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  • I want us to close with that proclamation.
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  • I took it from revelation 5.
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  • I wanted you to know where it came from.
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  • Why don't you stand? it's in your notes.
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  • It's printed in microfiche size.
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  • They will put it on the screens.
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  • It might help.
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  • Yes. god bless them.
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  • Let's say it together. it's not ours.
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  • We're joining an innumerable company of angels and every
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  • Creature in heaven on earth will say this together.
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  • We will say it together at some point in our future.
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  • This just dress rehearsal.
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  • What an honor to serve the king, to be jesus's people.
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  • What a privilege.
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  • Let's say it together.
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  • "worthy is the lamb, who was slain, to receive power and
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  • Wealth and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and praise.
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  • To him who sits on the throne and to the lamb be praise and
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  • Honor and glory and power forever and ever, amen."
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  • Hallelujah.
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